The open abdomen in trauma: Do infectious complications affect primary abdominal closure?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 433-441

  Vogel, Todd R ^a   Diaz Jr , Jose J ^a,b   Miller, Richard S ^a   May, Addison K ^a   Guillamondegui, Oscar D ^a   Guy, Jeffery S ^a   Morris Jr , John A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; DIAPHRAGM INJURY; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORALITY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB FRACTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; THORAX INJURY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33845243318     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.7.433     Document Type: Article

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